Catherine Caimano has a post at Faith & Leadership which offers a critical look at the Wild Goose Festival. Her bottom-line critique: Not Enough Jesus. She got this impression, it seems, from attending a few sessions and overhearing people talk in private conversations.

Among the elements to which she refers is the “Sexuality and Justice” panel that I moderated. What’s interesting is that I used an extended biblical illustration connecting Jesus’ healing of the man lowered through the roof with Peter’s healing of the cripple by the Temple gate in Acts 3. After that session, several people stopped me to thank me for talking about Jesus and the Bible. One young couple said, “We love it here, but we’re youth pastors in a conservative church and it’s tough for us to bring what we’re hearing back. Thanks for using the Bible — we haven’t heard much Bible here.”